Oh religion, you so crazy

[Yabby]

And my family wanted to know why i moved out of Oklahoma two days after turning 18 and moved to the NE.

[Eaglestrike]

When people say things like this I feel like I live in a 3rd-world country.

Haven't you heard? We are. Our economy is shit, unemployment skyrocketing and we're winning at futebol.

(ok yeah, we lost, but still, we did pretty good!)

[Dimmauk]

Holy shit! Reading the comments under that video really make me want to rage.

Poor Miz I really do understand why you need so much property around your house. It is a buffer from what is lurking in the woods.

This one made me LOL!

PeterMo wrote:
"Folks, this is really disturbing. Our country and Consitution is built upon Christian values and belief in a God. If you don't like it, move to Iran or Iraq and enjoy their beliefs and government control. This disgusts me."

Reminded of this bumper sticker I saw the other day, its said "If I wanted to live in a country run by religion, I'd move to Iran"

[Devolver]

I'll give an example of how it is here.

I live in Rhodhiss, NC. Towards the western mountain-area of the state (Right in between Hickory and Lenoir)

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.7 km²), of which, 1.0 square miles (2.5 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (6.67%) is water.

Small...

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 366 people, 170 households, and 112 families residing in the town.

Not alot of people.

In this town I am in, there are 6 churches. That is an actual number, and not an exaggeration. I am literally shunned upon when I discus my religious beliefs, or lack thereof.

[BerenTebogo]

Holy shit! Reading the comments under that video really make me want to rage.

Poor Miz I really do understand why you need so much property around your house. It is a buffer from what is lurking in the woods.

I didn't notice the first 5 or 6 comments under the video because the default is newest first. I went back and read them, holy fucking shit LOL.

"It wasn't vandalized it was corrected" and variations of over and over and over again.

[Xno Kappa]

Yahoo News comments are the fucking worst.

[Neosutra]

In before Neo.

[Acturus]

Yahoo News comments are the fucking worst.

The other day I was thinking nostalgically (is that a real word?) about ye olde Yahoo chat rooms from the mid- to late-90s, and I wondered whatever happened to them.

Then I realized that they're still there, they just exist as Comments sections of Yahoo News.

[Mizango]

Poor Miz I really do understand why you need so much property around your house. It is a buffer from what is lurking in the woods.

lol exactly. Its sort of like M.Night Shyamalan's "The Village" just with blacks and exponentially more rednecks.

[Cyn]

Believe it or not, it's not all that bad here if you live in a major city. I'd take NC over most of the rest of the southeast honestly. Alabama, Mississippi, hell even South Carolina are all much worse.

That being said I still want to move to either Vancouver or London.

[Mizango]

In before Neo.

You know, I was sort of waiting on that the second I saw the title lol. Disappointed that it took this long tbh.

[Kobus]

Blegh.

[JigglyJam]

I would have to agree that the NC folk getting butthurt about the billboards is retarded.

The bus driver, however, I understand his refusal to drive the bus as it conflicts with his beliefs. I applaud his actions for doing something he believes in.

Of course, there will be differing opinions on whether or not certain beliefs are acceptable. For example, if the advert had stated that the world was round as part of, I don't know, some communications deal and the bus driver refused to work as he believes the world to be flat. I think the belief is retarded but still have to give him some props for not wanting to be a part of it.

Also, I like that the bus driver wasn't protesting or complaining that the advertisements should be removed but instead said "hey, have you guys got another bus I can drive instead?"

[Cyn]

I'll give an example of how it is here.

I live in Rhodhiss, NC. Towards the western mountain-area of the state (Right in between Hickory and Lenoir)



Small...



Not alot of people.

In this town I am in, there are 6 churches. That is an actual number, and not an exaggeration. I am literally shunned upon when I discus my religious beliefs, or lack thereof.

You live close to one of the most liberal cities that I have ever been to south of DC though. Hell, if I had to live anywhere in NC other than Raleigh, it would be a tough choice between Asheville or the QC.

[Mizango]

I'd take NC over most states too. Considering I spent 5 years in St. Louis and spent time working in Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and other parts of the midwest bible belt and boy lemme tell you, the retardation there was unparalleled.

[Acturus]

You live close to one of the most liberal cities that I have ever been to south of DC though. Hell, if I had to live anywhere in NC other than Raleigh, it would be a tough choice between Asheville or the QC.

Asheville sucks if you don't have money. There's no industry, the housing speculation killed a lot of real estate, and the only stable businesses rely on seasonal tourism (leaf season and ski season). Plus it has that whole creepy neo-bohemian vibe to it, which if that's what you want, more power to you, but I can only stand visiting my brother in Asheville in small doses.

It is hella librul though. I have a great memory of sitting on a patio eating dinner with my wife at a fine dining restaurant and having this hueg white billboard splashed with blood red splotches and Iraq War death toll statistics and jabs at Dubya hanging over us. It was comedic.

As to the topic at hand, that's just silly. I can't imagine NCSecular not knowing what they were getting themselves into, and the press from this will amplify both sides of the argument.

[Mizango]

Good old Asheville.

[Devolver]

It's a weird occurrence. Once you leave the city limits of an Asheville/QC/Raleigh etc etc and start entering these backwater makeshift towns, it really becomes a joke.

It's polar opposites, which is odd to experience. Especially when it can happen so close to each other.

[BerenTebogo]

Asheville sucks if you don't have money. There's no industry, the housing speculation killed a lot of real estate, and the only stable businesses rely on seasonal tourism (leaf season and ski season). Plus it has that whole creepy neo-bohemian vibe to it, which if that's what you want, more power to you, but I can only stand visiting my brother in Asheville in small doses.

It is hella librul though. I have a great memory of sitting on a patio eating dinner with my wife at a fine dining restaurant and having this hueg white billboard splashed with blood red splotches and Iraq War death toll statistics and jabs at Dubya hanging over us. It was comedic.

As to the topic at hand, that's just silly. I can't imagine NCSecular not knowing what they were getting themselves into, and the press from this will amplify both sides of the argument.

I think that's the point. In the south it's a lot more "dangerous" to be open about your beliefs if they are anything other than theistic. I lived in Jax FL for a year, not a terrible place, but I got my taste of it.

An open, somewhat controversial, advertisement that gets attention and is a positive, patriotic, non-offensive in ANY rational way, message is an A+ idea.

Their follow up press release said that they had gotten 60ish new members in that one week of it being up before one of the signs was vandalized. In a state like NC, that's a huge recruitment number for one week.

It may not change the minds of all of your fundies, but it makes the people who may have felt like they were wrong for not believing, or who felt isolated, whatever, have some reassurance that it's ok to not just mindlessly /hivemind.

[Zoolander]

Florida isn't really the south, unless you are far from the coast or in the panhandle...which isnt really part of the state anyways. Maybe I've just spent too much time in college towns...although there is a huge confederate flag I drive by all the time on I-75 lol.

Idk how you guys live in those small towns period...forget the religious crazies, i'd just kill myself from the isolation and...feeling of insignificance I get from being in those kind of places.